New Grad! Finally found a job as home care nurse! Will the experience be enough?

[Donnuh]

I have just been hired to work per diem as a home care nurse for a health care agency. I have been looking for jobs everywhere with no luck! Will working part time as a home care nurse be something that employer at the hospital consideedr as an experience? Will that increased my chance of getting hired for new graduates program or just to be hired in the acute care setting?

Thanks :redbeathe

[GuatericanNurse]

I was wondering...I am also a new grad and I have applied to about 100 jobs. I have never applied to a home care job, only because they ask that you have at least 1 yr of nursing experience. How did you manage to land a home care job? Congrats by the way!

[Donnuh]

Thanks! I searched on Craiglist and I got lucky because my friend was in it. Try Craiglist, I check every day and there is always new postings.

[Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN]

It may not be acute care experience, but IMO any nursing experience is better than no nursing experience, which is what you'd have if you were sitting around waiting for the new grad hospital job.

Plus it shows them that you have initiative. Even though it wasn't acute care nursing, volunteering at a local clinic helped me get a few interviews: one interviewer told me she was impressed that I was out doing something.